Two Best Paper Awards at CHI'19

Jon E. Froehlich Mar 15, 2019

We are honored and excited that the Makeability Lab received two 'Best Paper Awards' at CHI'19, which are giv...

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Aileen Zeng Awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarship

Jon E. Froehlich Mar 13, 2019

Congratulations to ugrad researcher extraordinaire, Aileen Zeng, for being awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship for her work on [read more]

PrototypAR Accepted Into IDC'19

Jon E. Froehlich Mar 12, 2019

Our paper on PrototypAR, an interactive tangible prototyping system that allows children to rapidly build, test, and iterate on their designs using augmented reality (AR) was accepted to the [read more]

Ather Sharif featured in "CAREERS and the disABLED" magazine

Jon E. Froehlich Mar 05, 2019

PhD student Ather Sharif is featured in the Winter edition of “CAREERS and the disABLED” magazine. The piece was written just as Ather joined UW and describes...

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Graduation! Congrats Drs. Stearns and Mauriello!

Jon E. Froehlich Dec 19, 2018

Congratulations to newly minted PhDs Matt Mauriello, now a post-doc at Stanford, and Lee Stearns, now at the J...

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Seokbin Kang Passes his PhD Preliminary Exam

Jon E. Froehlich Dec 19, 2018

Congratulations to Seokbin Kang who successfully defended his PhD proposal on "Augmented Reality Systems to Engage Children in Everyday STEM Experiences." Thank you to Professors Tammy Clegg and David...

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Five Papers Conditionally Accepted to CHI'19!

Jon E. Froehlich Dec 10, 2018

The Makeability Lab had five papers conditionally accepted to CHI'19. We'll see you in Glasgow!

Stay tuned for more information. Hoping to post pre-prin...

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Venkatesh and Dhruv win Security TGIF

Jon E. Froehlich Nov 09, 2018

At TGIF today, the security students hosted with the theme "Would you rather..." Attendees could brainstorm and submit questions that had a "would you rather..." scenario with two choices. The most po...

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AR captioning wins the People's Choice Award in Allen School Annual Research Day

Dhruv Jain Nov 02, 2018

We're proud to announce that UW PhD Student and Makeability Lab Member Dhruv Jain's poster titled "Exploring Augmented Reality Approaches to Real-Time Captioning: An Autoethnographic Study" won th...

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